Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Mike Burns to attend the 2009 St. John's Storytelling Festival


Funny, magical, and mysterious, Michael Burns is an Irish storyteller and aikido master living in Montreal who tells stories in Gaelic, Irish and English. He has been telling stories he originally heard from his father for over 40 years. Mike has a repertoire of several hundred traditional stories from the lore of Iveragh (South Kerry, Ireland) and gives concerts regularly at festivals across Canada and abroad. He co-founded the Regroupement Du Conte au Québec (RCQ) in 2003, and has been twice awarded the Girouette Cuivrée, which is given to outstanding individuals who have made storytelling shine in Quebec and abroad.

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